How to buy shoes in leap month?

Leap-moon shoes: leap-moon shoes, leap-moon shoes, leap-moon shoes for the elderly 1000.

Leaping moon shoes are a folk custom in China. Every leap month in the lunar calendar, children should buy a pair of shoes for their parents to repay their parenting and make their parents healthy and safe. In some areas, every leap month, married daughters have to buy a pair of shoes for their mothers. Leap moon shoes must be worn in the previous month to be effective.

In the leap May of the lunar calendar in 2009, savvy merchants played "filial piety cards" and "warmth cards" in advance to win people's hearts, and women's shoes were sold everywhere. "Leap-moon shoes are worn in leap months, and the elderly in leap months live 1000 years old." According to the folk saying, every leap year and leap month, children should buy a pair of shoes for their parents, in order to repay the kindness of parenting and make their parents healthy and safe.

Leap moon custom:

There are many old customs about leap month. For example, in 2006, it was leap July, and the old man said that leap July was not good for his daughter-in-law, so in some places, there was a custom for her mother-in-law to give gifts to her daughter-in-law. In 2009, it was leap May. Some old people said that leap May was not good for their son-in-law, so in some places, there was a custom for mothers-in-law to give gifts to their son-in-law.

From the perspective of changing customs, these old customs with obvious superstitious colors are really not worth following. However, if someone does something with a little game mentality to give gifts in leap month, it seems that there is no need to stop and interfere to express their love and concern for their loved ones.

In some places, there is an old custom of buying shoes for parents to ward off evil spirits in leap May. There is nothing wrong with local young people who don't believe in superstition buying a pair of shoes for their parents this year to express their filial piety.

In Jianghuai area, every leap year and leap month, married daughters have to make socks, shoes or clothes for their mothers. As the saying goes, "Seventy-three and eighty-four are the days when the prince didn't invite him", and it is said that seventy-three and eighty-four are the end of the tenth day. Children think that the old man will be on earth soon, so they should give him some delicious food and show their filial piety while they live.

Recently, it has developed again, and it is getting newer every year: jiaozi, fried dough sticks, eggs, shoes, socks and coats are all written with the words "disaster-free", and I wish you a long life. Some people also give children red underwear and embroidered toad schoolbags, which are also called "disaster-free". To test its legends, there are superstitious elements.

In Fujian, there is a custom of "leap moon banquet", also called "six-parent banquet", that is, every leap month in a leap year, parents and brothers invite their daughters and sisters home for dinner. When parents are alive, parents will invite their married daughters home. If their parents are not alive, the two brothers will invite their married sisters back for a "leap moon meal".